Frederick Guy Trevor Beetham was born on 17 July in 1922. He studied medicine in New Zealand, graduating MB, ChB in 1946 before travelling to the UK. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1952 and the diploma in medicine and radiology the same year. Returning to New Zealand, he became a consu

Derek Berg was born in 1926 in Hong Kong, where his father was a shipping broker and Norwegian Consul-General. His Australian mother Constance died of cerebral malaria just before his third birthday, and Derek was sent to live with his aunt in Adelaide. His father remarried and he returned to Hong K

Shortly after leaving Caldy Grammar school, Peter joined the Royal Navy in the early stages of the War. He served as an officer in frigates on Atlantic escort duty. On D-Day he was in command of six supply barges, landing on the Normandy beaches on D+1. On being demobbed he started as a dental

Born at Pontefract on 12 September 1904, the son of a general practitioner, George Blomfield was educated at Malvern and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in the mechanical sciences tripos. Despite his gift for mathematics and mechanical science he was, after

Alan Blower served in the medical branch of the RAF as a consultant surgeon for 17 years, but had to retire on health grounds in 1970. He retrained in radiology, and became a successful and popular consultant at Peterborough. He was born in Greenwich on 31 January 1927, the only son of Thomas Paske

William Box was born on 1 December 1924, in Hampstead, London. His parents were William J O Box, a caterer, and Dorothea, née Green, a model. He was educated at Hilltop Hall School, Seaford, Haileybury, Trinity College, Dublin, and Edinburgh. After qualifying, he worked in junior surgical posts in C

Born on 21 January 1893, son of Charles Carter Braine FRCS and Harriet Jane Evans his wife. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and immediately on qualifying in 1916 he entered the RAMC and saw active service in France and East Africa. After the war he came back to Guy's as demonstrator of anatomy (1

Lawrence Brock ('Laurie') was born of missionary parents in 1923 at Honan, China. His first degree was in chemistry, and then after qualifying he did research in neurophysiology with Professor Sir John Eccles and subsequently in Cambridge. He then trained in surgery, but decided after lumbar disc pr

Laetitia Brocklebank, formerly Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Oral Radiology at the University of Glasgow, died unexpectedly at her home in Edinburgh on 4 December 2020. Laetitia was born on 9 June 1952 in Bromley, Kent, the second child of John and Jane Finlay, both of whom

James William Douglas Bull, the son of a general practitioner in Buckinghamshire, was educated at Repton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before securing an entrance scholarship to St George's Hospital Medical School and graduating there in 1936. One of his uncles was a radiologist and

Frederick George Osborne Burrows was a consultant radiologist for Birmingham Central Health District. He was born in Stranorlar, County Donegal, Ireland in 1924. He studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin and qualified in 1949. He gained his FRCS in 1954 and then focused on radiology. Prior t

Ross Fordyce Burton, known as ‘Peter’, was a consultant radiotherapist in Auckland, New Zealand. He was born on 19 September 1922 in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of Percy Robert Burton, a school principal, and Millicent Evaline Burton née French. He attended school in Opotiki, then at Brixton Road